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Calixto Oviedo
About Me
Calixto Oviedo is a Latin Grammy nominated
artist (2000 La Rumba del Siglo) Latin Grammy
and Grammy nominated 2020 (Afro Peruvian Jazz
Orquesta)
He is endorser:
by DW Drums, LP , Haram Sticks drums ,
Aquariam drums heads and Soultone Cymbals.
Calixto has
had the
opportunity to play with numerous internationally
known artists including Paquito
D'Rivera,
Arturo Sandoval, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chucho
Valdes, Danilo Perez and many
others with a
career that spans over 40 years.
Calixto moved from Stockholm to Lakewood, CO
in July of 2013. Since then he
has been performing and teaching clinics
at major United States Universities, such as
University of Colorado at Boulder
(CU), California State University at Los
Angeles (CSULA), and Berklee College of Music.
He has been honored to play at this various
festivals around the world: Feria de
Cali, Colombia ; Montreaux Jazz Festival,
Paleo Rock Festival, Carnaval in Panamá, Nice
jazz Festival, France; Roskilde
Festival, Festival de Salsa en Madrid,
Spain; North Sea Jazz Festival, Netherlands;
Antillansefeesten, Belgium; Festival
de Salsa en Barcelona, Spain; Umbria
Jazz, Italy; Couleur Café, Belgium; Festival di San
Remo, Italy; Riga Ritmi
Festival, Latvia; Copenhagen Jazz Festival,
Denmark; Nordischerklang, Germany; Gottingen
Jazz Festival, Germany; Red Sea
Jazz Festiva, Eilat – Israel; Imatra Big
Band Festival, Finland; Umeå Jazz Festival,
Sweden; Oslo World Music, Norway;
Salsa Festival, Madrid, Spain; Feria del
Pacifico, Peru; Frutas Tropicales, Helsinki –
Finland; Molde Jazz Festival, Molde,
Norway; Udine jazz –Italy; A Sulle
Bocce –Italy; Montreal Jazz Festival –Canada;
Portland Jazz Festival; Sun Festival
–Singapore.
As of October 1st, 2014, Calixto became a
professor at the California State
University at Los
Angeles (CSULA).
Books
Salsa Beyond Percussion VOL
Book II: Calixto Oviedo - Drums & Timbales: Basic
Rhythms
Authored by Kevin Moore, Calixto Oviedo is the
first artist featured in the
manuscript series Beyond Salsa Percussion, the
companion to author Kevin
Moore's Beyond Salsa Piano series. In this book,
Volume II, Calixto Oviedo -
Drums and Timbales: Basic Rhythms, covers the
wide range of traditional
rhythmic styles that he has mastered before
embarking on the dramatic
innovations for which he later became famous. He
plays each rhythm in its
traditional form and then shows how it can be
adapted to drum-set in a variety of
modern situations. 144 pages.
Book III: Calixto Oviedo: Drum and Timbales-
Timba Gears
volume 2This tome dissects Oviedo’s style using
the “gear” approach –introduced
by Kevin Moore in 2004 in the book “The Tomás
Cruz Conga Method”. With dozens
of carefully transcribed musical examples, the
goal of this volume is to help
experienced drummers master the new Cuban
styles and non-latin drummers,
arrangers, listeners and dancers master the
intricacies of Cuban music. 176
pages.
Book IV: Calixto Oviedo: Drum and Timbales: NG
La Banda 1
Volume IV of this series concentrates on Oviedo’s
performances with NG La
Banda, one of the most important and pivotal
bands in Cuban music history. In
this volume, Calixto retraces his own recordings
with the band as the book
analyzes what he does and why he does it, bar by
bar. 148 pages.
Instructional Videos
Beyond Salsa Percussion-Calixto Oviedo-Drums
and TimbalesThis DVD combines
the video footage from the two volumes above on
the style of Calixto Oviedo:
Beyond Salsa Percussion, Vols. 2 and 3: Basic
Rhythms and Timba Gears.
The EXTRAS menu contains additional raw
footage from the original 3-day filming
sessions, including a third solo and complete
performances of the entire
arrangements of four classic songs that Calixto
recorded with the seminal Cuban
timba band, NG La Banda.
Oviedo's percussion books are available on
www.createspace.com
